Work-in-Progress Sessions

Surgical Outcomes Club (SOC) members are invited to participate in bi-monthly virtual didactic sessions for an opportunity to receive updates in our field of research, share progress, and set the stage for future collaborations and opportunities. Work-in-progression sessions are hosted by SOC, Association for Academic Surgery (AAS), and the Society of University Surgeons (SUS). SOC/AAS/SUS Didactic Sessions will take place every other month at 2 pm Pacific / 3 pm Mountain / 4 pm Central / 5 pm Eastern with occasional variations depending on speaker availability. Tentative dates are included below. When possible, presentations will be made available on the website after the session.

SOC/AAS/SUS Work in Progress Sessions Dates from 2018:

June 12, "Using Machine Learning to Develop New Risk Stratification System for Critical Limb Ischemia " Jeffrey J. Siracuse, MD; Associate Professor of Surgery and Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine. View slides with audio here

August 18,"Leading Change from the Pacific Northwest to the Nation: The American College of Surgeons Strong for Surgery Campaign" Thomas K Varghese Jr, MD, MS, FACS; Head, Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Utah. View slides with audio here

July 21,"Natural Language Processing and Quality Measurement: Opening the Black Box of Clinical Text" Brian T. Bucher, MD; Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine View slides with audio here

April 21, "Surgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System - development of a novel risk assessment system" Robert Meguid, MD, MPH, MSPH; Assistant Professor, Surgery-Cardiothoracic, University of Colorado. Due to technical difficulties, the slides with audio are not available.

March 17, Due to technical difficulties the recording has no audio. "Patient Engagement in Surgical Outcomes Research" Danielle C. Lavallee, PharmD, PhD; Research Assistant Professor, Division of General Surgery, University of Washington. View Slides with no audio here

February 18,"Identifying the impact of surgical services on population health: the relationship between national cesarean delivery rates and maternal and neonatal mortality" Alex B. Haynes, MD, MPH; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, and George Molina, MD, MPH; Clinical Fellow in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Ariadne Labs. View slides with audio here

January 21,"Improving Surgical Quality through Video Analysis and Coaching" Oliver Varban, MD; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director of Bariatric Surgery, University of Michigan Health Systems. Due to slide content, the session was not recorded.

SOC/AAS/SUS Didactic Session Dates from 2015:

December 17,"Learning from your Collaborative: How & Why to do Hospital Site Visits" Julie K. Johnson, MSPH, PhD; Professor, Department of Surgery, Center for Healthcare Studies, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine; Northwestern University. View slides with audio here

September 24,"Quality Improvement: Is There a Science to It?" View Slides with audio here Lillian Kao, MD, MS; Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, The University of Texas Medical School

May, 14,"There and back again: applying military surgical research to civilian practice" Due to slide content, the session was not recorded. Andrew Schoenfeld, MD, MSc; Director of Spine Surgical Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Faculty, Center for Surgery and Public Health Brigham and Women's Hospital

March 26, "Fulfilling the Promise of Surgical Outcomes Research: Using Implementation and Improvement Science to Improve Surgical Care" View slides with audio here Brian Mittman, PhD; Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Implementation Practice and Research Support, and Senior Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Department of Research and Evaluation.